Model Boat Mayhem
The Shipyard ( Dry Dock ): Builds & Questions => Working Vessels => Topic started by: seymore on April 22, 2011, 02:52:46 pm
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this is the Revell 1:96 scale Cutty Sark kit. I got it from E-bay, in 2009. everything was in the kit, but the sails were garbage and the decal sheet was unusable. It took about five months or so to fins a viable set of sails.....first thing I did was put in a missing parts request to Revell. there are three sheets of sails......I got two of them and the decal sheet. a while after that I was contacted by a gentleman from Belgium, who was looking for the instruction sheets for the Cutty. we traded, since he wasn't going to do his build with sails. later on in the build, I found that the decals I had gotten weren't any good either, so I got one of those decal making programs, and made my own. I did this after getting the "snub" from a couple of {people} places on the web that makes decals.....I'll never go that route again.
I saw so many variants as for the Cutty paint, that I decided to do it my way. giving it a nice paint, and embellishing a bit to put more color into it. I also wanted to do it in a way, so the length of the ship would be a highlight. the use of a light gray was another aspect I did, rather than use a white, which made a big difference. the things i have left to do on it are the sheet lines, the braces, and the studding sails. I have done this ship once before, and the studding sails really gives some width to the build
(http://s2.postimage.org/o37r6jo/Cutty_Sark_port_side.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/o37r6jo/)
(http://s2.postimage.org/o86d810/Cutty_Sark_port_bow.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/o86d810/)
(http://s2.postimage.org/o9twkis/Cutty_Sark_starboard_side.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/o9twkis/)
(http://s2.postimage.org/ojr4nhg/Cutty_Sark_clew_lines.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/ojr4nhg/)
(http://s2.postimage.org/oopqoys/Cutty_Sark_stay_sails.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/oopqoys/)
(http://s2.postimage.org/otocqg4/cutty_life_boats.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/otocqg4/)